Cockenzie

& Port Seton Amateur Radio Club Elements

Cockenzie & Port Seton

Amateur Radio Club is

affiliated to the Radio

Society of Great Britain

and holds the call signs

MM0CPS and GM2T which

are used for our special

event and contest entries.

The Club was formed by

Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ in

1984 to help the local

amateurs get to know each

other.

Far from being just a local

club we have members

regularly attending from

the Borders, Dumfries,

Strathclyde, Fife and

Newcastle.

The Club meets on the first

Friday of every month

(Second Friday of January)

in the lounge of the

Thorntree Inn on the old

Cockenzie High Street from

7pm till late.

Editorial Here we are in December at the end of another club year. Has it been a good year yes I certainly think so and in next month’s editorial I will do a recap on what has happened over the 2012 year? Personally it has been another busy year both on the radio club and personal front to the extent I have not played as much radio as I would have liked to, plus I still have lots of outstanding things I should have done so maybe next year I will end up with a nice clean sheet, some hopes knowing my luck…….

So what else has happened since our last club night? There was a talk on “SOTA Activation” by Dr Colwyn Jones MM0YCJ which as I write this is about to happen but I am sure it will have been a tremendous talk. We are running on Thursday nights on Morse Training class which takes us quite nicely to Christmas. More sessions are planned for the New Year but as yet I haven’t sorted out any dates and as soon as I have then I will place them on the website forum that has been set-up for all the Morse Training news. Regarding the teaching front 8 pupils passed the Foundation course at the beginning of November so congratulations and a warm welcome to our great hobby. An Intermediate class is now in progress with the exam planned for the Saturday prior to Christmas. We will have just invigilated a Full (Advanced) exam on the 5th December and we wish them all the best on the outcome. I will be starting a Full (Advanced) Course on the 19th January aiming for the March 2013 exam. I am sure you will go along with me

and wish them all the luck.

To the future: Tomorrow a few of us are going out for our Christmas Meal which I am really looking forward too, it is an occasion where we get a chance to go out along with our partners and have a meal and a good laugh. For me I am taking a sabbatical for the rest of December and January to try and recharge the batteries ready for the “February Off” on the club events calendar. As I write this Cephas MM0INS is busy working on a Construction project so look out for this being advertised. From what I have seen already it looks like it will be lots of fun....

My wish for 2013 is that some of the “old faces” will return to the club and that everyone will support ALL our club events. LET US ALL SUPPORT THE CLUB because if you don’t it will just die and that is something I would hate to see happen.

Right that is about it again for another year so all that is left to say to you all is to WISH YOU ALL AND YOUR FAMILIES A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPOROUS NEW YEAR. I should add I hope you get what you want as well from Santa, assuming you posted your letter!

Bob GM4UYZ

PS: Remember January club night is the second Friday in January, the 11th January.

In this issue December Activity Night P.2

Test Your knowledge P.3

Where do our newly licensed Amateurs Go? P.4

Maritime Mobile Lighthouses Weekend P.5

CQWW SSB Contest P.7

VHF Field Day UBN Report P.10

Operation Umbrella P.12

Winter Construction Nights P.14

Event Calendar P.16

Clublog P.16

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December Activity Night

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History:

For a few years we tried running our own “small” contest on the nearest Wednesday to mid-summers day. We started at first using 10M but as the sunspot cycle started to fall it was moved to the 20M band but sadly over the years it was not really well supported. Many of the comments that came back after the event are, “it is a “Contest”. Why not change the event to an Activity Night”? To that end it changed to just that an Activity Night. As mentioned up to present this event has been run at the Summer Solstice so it would be interesting to see what can be achieved at the Winters Solstice. Another change is that it now includes all Bands from 1.8MHz up to 432MHz to allow those who have no HF equipment to take part by submitting their VHF/UHF contacts.

Aim:

The aim of the event is to get on the air and work as many stations that you can in the allotted time period plus at the same time have some fun. Using the World Wide Locator (WWL) system as part of the exchange gives the ability to measure the distance between your location and the contacts location and it also offers the challenge to obtain the remote contacts WWL. I have certainly noticed that over 98% of all QSL cards that I receive have the stations locator written on the card so obtaining one should, hopefully be quite easy. Note: I will accept the locator as 4 characters (FN32) if that is

what the station gives you but please try to obtain the full 6 characters as this will give a very accurate distance. If 4 char-acters are given I will use the centre of the square which is LL to make the locator FN32LL

Lastly, we are Radio Amateurs after all and we are supposed to get on the air and make contacts so come on then let me see you doing it.

After the Event:

After the event can you send me a copy of your log, example on page 2 so that I can write up some report on what you all managed to achieve plus why not update the club tables and show everyone else what you achieved.

** Distance between the two stations in Kilometres (Note: Use the Locator Calculator within the link below to calculate the distance).

http://home.arcor.de/waldemar.kebsch/The_Makrothen_Contest/fmaidenhead.html

** If you don’t have the means to calculate the distance please leave blank.

Look forward to a massive turnout for the event…

Bob GM4UYZ

(1) Date 19th December 2012

(2) Time 19:00 to 22:00 Local Time

(3) Modes SSB /FM / CW/ Data

(4) Bands 1.8, 3.5, 7, 10, 14, 18, 21, 24, 28, 50, 70, 144 & 432 MHz

(5) Power As per your licence

Full=400W, Intermediate=50W and Foundation=10W

(6) Your Locator World Wide Locator (WWL) i.e. IO85MX

(7) Eligible Entrants Open to any one who wishes to take part

(8) Transmit Exchange Report (RST)

(9) Receive Exchange Report plus Contacts WWL

(10) Closing Date Closing Date for the Logs is Friday, 28th December 2012

(11) Return Logs to Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ, 7 Castle Terrace, Port Seton, Prestonpans, East Lothian,

EH32 0EE

Email: gm4uyz@cpsarc.com

(9) QSO’s not Eligible Any HF/VHF/UHF QSO’s via a repeater do not count

QSO Call Sign Name Band Ant Power

(W) Date Mode Station Wkd Your

Locator Their

Locator Distance

Kms

1 GM4UYZ Bob Glasgow 20 Vert 100 31/05/2009 CW AD4J IO85MX EM73VX 6427

2 GM4UYZ Bob Glasgow 20 Vert 100 30/05/2009 CW NC4CW IO85MX EM92IC 6408

3 GM4UYZ Bob Glasgow 20 Vert 100 24/05/2009 CW WA9MAG IO85MX EN51VS 6020

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Our club has been added

to the excellent Clublog

system developed by

Michael Wells G7VJR.

www.clublog.org

The system allows

members to upload their

logs in ADIF format and

have them displayed in a

table with all the other

club members.

Clublog also has great

facilities for tracking your

DXCC status etc so is well

worth taking the time to

register and get your log

uploaded.

To update your log with

the next set of contacts

(SSB, CW or Data) you can

simply upload your whole

log again and the system

will take care of the

duplicates. Alternatively

you can export the bits

you want from your own

log and just upload that.

The tables we’ll publish

here will be the club,

filtered by the current

year, so everyone starts a

new year at 0 contacts.

Test Your Knowledge

1. Which one of the following frequencies would be affected by harmonics from a transmitter operating on 10.10MHz

a. 1.01MHz

b. 10.20MHz

c. 30.30MHz

d. 50.51MHz

2. Harmonics present at the output of an HF transmitter are normally reduced by fitting a

a. Low Pass Filter

b. High Pass Filter

c. Band Pass Filter

d. Band Stop Filter

3. The function of the demodulator stage in a radio receiver is to

a. Indicate the presence of harmonics

b. Select the required signal

c. Extract the audio frequencies from the carrier

d. Change RF into AF when a CW signal is received

4. The intermediate frequency of a receiver is 500Khz. The local oscillator is running at 5MHz. The frequency of the signal received will be

a. 500KHz

b. 4.5MHz

c. 5MHz

d. 6MHz

5. Which control on a transceiver is used to alter the note of Morse Code signals?

a. A power output control

b. A squelch control

c. A BFO (Beat frequency oscillator)

d. A microphone gain control

6. In a single sideband transmitter the carrier is removed by the

a. RF Oscillator

b. Balanced Modulator

c. Sideband Filter

d. RF Power Amplifier

7. When an audio signal is mixed with a radio frequency signal, new frequencies are pro-duced called

a. Intermodulation products

b. Frequency modulation

c. Carriers

d. Sidebands

8. Harmonic frequencies are

a. Multiples of the chosen frequency

b. Not multiples of the chosen frequency

c. Half and one third of the chosen frequency

d. Not related to the fundamental frequency

9. A fast rise and fall of the transmitted RF envelope of a CW transmitter may result in

a. Chirp

b. Poor frequency stability

c. Reduced output power

d. Excessive bandwidth

10. A product detector is used to

a. Recover the audio from a SSB transmission

b. Indicate the received signal strength

c. Recover the audio from a FM transmission

d. Produce an amplitude modulated signal

Club Attire

The club has a design for

Club Tee-shirts, Polo-

shirts, Sweat-Shirts, Fleec-

es and Jackets and all of

these can be obtained

from the address below.

When making an order

please quote ‘Cockenzie &

Port Seton Amateur Radio

Club’ as this will ensure

that the Club Logo will be

placed on the required

ordered garments.

If you wish to add your call

-sign to the logo then

please ask at the time of

the order.

Cost will depend on gar-

ment and should cover the

garment and logo, call-sign

addition will be extra.

Order from:

PATRICIA BEWSEY DESIGNS,

UNIT 11,

FENTON BARNS RETAIL

VILLAGE,

FENTON BARNS,

NORTH BERWICK,

EAST LOTHIAN

EH39 5BW

Tel/Fax: 01620 850788

Mobile: 07970 920431

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Below is what I replied to the RSGB with re-garding a survey on getting people to move up through the licence structure... That is a really good question. Since I started delivering training back in 1995 I have taught either 1 to all 3 of the licenses to 237. It is a comment that quite a few people say to me, “where is everyone you have trained?” and it is also something I have been aware off and to be honest I really don’t have a definitive an-swer. I must admit I have had candidates from lots of different areas in Scotland – All around the borders, West of Scotland, Fife, Stirling-shire as well as local. What has drawn them to my class is that I run them on Saturdays rather than multiple weeks, otherwise it is over and done with quickly. The reason Saturdays from my perspective is that work doesn’t get in the way... I am a Computer Engineer and my patch is Scotland and as far south as Middles-borough so through the week I don’t know where I will end up. The people that have attended a class and have travelled a long distance I am not really aware of what they are doing so I really cannot answer for them. Having said that if I go to the local rally at Gal-ashiels plus the “Junk Night” that the club runs in August I see quite a few so they are obviously still quite keen on the hobby. I try to encourage everyone to come along to our club that lives a reasonable distance from us and give it a try. Plenty have come along and they really fall into three categories – Visited and what we offer is not for them (always try to find out what they want but I haven’t been successful with that), change of circumstances or work doesn’t allow them to attend and lastly those who are enthusiastic and enjoy what a club has to offer. People taking the exams are doing it for differ-ent reasons:

Want to just obtain a licence.

Get one and they never use it.

Are active when time prevails

Are very active

Members of 4x4 Emergency response teams to help in emergencies. These people work hand in hand with RAYNET.

Always been interested in radio and haven’t got around to getting a licence.

At CPSARC we encourage our SWL’s to move on and get a licence then they

can join in all the fun..... The biggest influence that I am finding at the moment is with (2) above. In this area the people who started the 4x4 response team were original candidates of mine (trained them up to the Full Licence). They saw the potential of what radio offers so as part of their remit it is to get everyone of their mem-bers to have at least a Foundation Licence. As an example out of the 8 candidates for the Foundation Licence sat in November 6 are members of the 4x4 group. They are also no-ticing that the 10W Output Power is not enough so they are encouraging people to move onto at least the Intermediate and hopefully the Advanced and I see this happen-ing but not is as many numbers as I would like. Training Program Since I started training I set out a program on what I am going to do and when. Two reasons for this are that I have to book a room in the local Community Centre so I need to know its availability (no point advertising a course and then find the room is not available!!) and also so I know what I am actually doing as well. My training starts in September and ends ei-ther March or very early April. I always plan my training on when the Full Licence Exams are then work back from that. See my plan which can be found under training on the club’s website for to Spring 2013. My plan is to run a Foundation Course then an Interme-diate Course then another Foundation Course then another Intermediate Course and finally end up with the Full Course. The target is to encourage everyone who starts on a Founda-tion Course to then continue with the Inter-mediate and then finally sit the Full. I also en-courage them that from a learning point of view it is easier as it is a continual flow from one level to the other and not getting a chance to forget. It certainly seems to work for me. I also when I teach the Foundation or Intermediate bring a little of the next level in as well, often it helps explain things better. One thing that I certainly ensure is no matter what I am teaching I cover everything that is in the current syllabus so nothing is missed. The issue about moving from one level to an-other again is a good question and as I men-

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Where do our newly licensed amateurs go?

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Talk “2012 Maritime Mobile Lighthouses Weekend & St Kilda” by Geoff Crowley MM5AHO

The talk took place in the Port Seton Community Centre on Friday 19th October between 19:30 and 21:30. I would like to thank those who did turn and support the event. Normally this date has been set aside for a DVD/VIDEO Night on our Events Calendar but as Geoff had done other sailing trips I asked if he would deliver a talk on them, so here is the story...

To the talk …

Another hobby for Geoff is that he does sailing. He has a half share in a 32 foot yacht which sleeps five and is built to even do an Atlantic crossing. It also has a 30HP diesel engine just in case there is no wind... Regarding radio’s it contains a stand-ard Marine 25W VHF radio and a FT857 (100W) with a FC30 Auto ATU for Amateur Radio. The aerial being used for HF the backstay of the yacht which is insulated and gives an 8M Slop-er. Geoff then went onto talk about the different areas with the yacht i.e. sleeping arrangements, cooking, etc.

To the actual trips...

Geoff was joined by his son Matt MM1EUI. They left from Dunstaffnage Marina at Oban headed up the sound of Mull before turning west with an aim to visit Dubh Artach which lies to the west of Mull but before this Geoff and two other

passengers decided that they were going to sail to St Kilda. The St Kilda trip was two weeks before Lighthouses Weekend and their passage out to St Kilda took a couple of days stop-ping at Barra on the way out. The sail was excellent with liter-ally no wind at all. On arriving at St Kilda their passage took them through the outlying stacks which are full with nesting birds before anchoring in the bay anchorage. St Kilda is owned by the National Trust for Scotland and what you can and can-not do on the island is very strict indeed. Trying to put up a radio station is just about nigh on impossible with all the re-strictions. Geoff when delivering his talk gave a great history lesson about the island and below is some of the statistics:

St Kilda Archipeligo

Bronze Age settlement

Population 1697 = 180

Pop 1930 = 36

Pop Aug 2012 = 17 (temporary in summer)

History

1912 Food shortage

1913 Influenza

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tioned above I try to encourage it but again for different rea-sons it is not taken up. Reasons being, I just want to stay where I am, family and work commitments does not allow the time, etc. I find that it is the Course Fees that put people off in my case. I get lots of enquires and I send the people all the information including costs and I don’t hear another thing I feel it is bad manners to be honest as I would appreciate a reply saying, thanks for the information but I am not going to take up the course. I have been accused of making money delivering training, I wish!!!!!! Community Centre Costs £6.50 an hour so £45 a day, RSGB Exam Fees, I provide the Training Books and kits so it soon mounts up when you are putting the course fees together. I am sure you can do all the sums!!!! To change it: Difficult one... but I think the money angle is the issue, in my case.

If club premises were available or premises that could take a number of people at a low cost for the day or even free for the day.

Lower exam fees. I know administration, etc has to be paid for but why not make it one standard fee

Courses run over days rather than weeks. I know it is not always possible for many, many reasons

Encouragement by tutors when teaching the lower li-cences to get the candidates onto the next level.

Sure there are more but I cannot think of any at the moment.

RSGB Membership This I feel will also be an issue. I always try to encourage candi-dates to join and I know many have, as I explain the benefits of being a member but as the old saying goes, “you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink” and this is the hard line fact. I think as long we encourage about being a member then there is really nothing we can do. Financially people these days are finding money tight so they are watch-ing what they spend it on and I think the RSGB along with eve-ryone else is suffering. My only real suggestion is as follows but it will incur the RSGB to take the cost. Suggestion is: Every new Foundation Licence exam candidate who passes the exam becomes an automatic member for a year. This way they will enjoy the benefits of the RSGB and hopefully see that it is worth remaining a member so when the renewal notices go out hopefully the will sign up for another year. My thoughts..... Bob Glasgow GM4UYZ

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Talk: Maritime Mobile Lighthouses Weekend

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The Club

The Club is run in a very

informal way, just a group

of like minded people

doing something they

enjoy!

This does not mean that

we don’t do anything, we

enter (and win!) contests,

train newcomers, hold

talks and video nights and

run a popular annual Junk

Sale. Our newsletter has

won the Practical Wireless

‘Spotlight’ competition on

several occasions.

The Club supports the

British Heart Foundation

in memory of a member

who died from heart dis-

ease by donating the

profits from some of the

events we hold, we have

raised over £14,795 since

1994.

Supported by BT Community

Champions

1914-1918 WW1 occupation by Navy

1931 sold to Marquis Bute

1957 given to NTS

Largest gannet Colony in world

UKs largest Fulmar colony

St Kildans ate 115 Fulmars each per year

Highest Sea Stacks in UK

Best diving area in UK (visibility)

Soay Sheep are Bronze Age de-scendents

St Kilda Mouse Hamster sized & unique

St Kilda Wren only 133 pairs, unique

In 1850’s some St Kildans migrated to Melbourne

41 miles west of Benbecula

Language was Gaelic

It was fascinating to see the original street and houses as they were. The National Trust is working hard to restore the original houses back to how they were... Geoff also made the climb to the highest point in the island where you can just see across towards the Outer Hebrides. I must admit the St Kilda part of the talk was absolutely enthralling and I could have listened to it for a long time.

Back to Lighthouses Weekend with Geoff and Matt on their travels... They headed to Colonsay as their last and overnight stop before making the sail out to Dubh Artach. In the morning and after listening to the weath-er forecast which was not favourable they made the decision not to go out to Dubh Artach for obvious safety reasons. Where could they go so after looking at the chart they decided on Ruvaal Lighthouse on the northern tip of Islay? Anchoring just off from the lighthouse they stayed there to activate it. What a surprise I got when I heard my voice working Geoff during Lighthouses Weekend. Oh it sounded weird to say the least but having said that it was fantastic that we managed to work Geoff on both 40M and 20M during the event plus having them recorded as well.

How did Geoff do then?

Stations Worked:

Colonsay: 26

Ruvaal : 258

Skervuille 9

Pulldobhrain 4

Lighthouses Contacted: 28

Overall it was a fantastic trip incorporating Amateur Radio into a sailing holiday. Geoff reckons he will do it again, the next time looking at maybe going to different light-houses....

Next Year?

Options:

Orkney – Barrel of Butter (5 days sailing)?

Skervuille (Jura east coast)?

Dubh Artach?

Suggestions?

The talk was an absolute thrilling one and I know everyone really enjoyed it. It was great to see a different approach to Lighthouses Weekend something that the club has been involved in since 1995.

For those who missed it well what can I say....?

To Geoff once again from us all many thanks for an interesting and fascinating talk.

Bob GM4UYZ

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CQWW SSB Contest

48 hours Saturday/Sunday 27-28th OCTOBER

As we have in past years the club once again took part in the above contest from our usual venue of Barns Ness Lighthouse, Dunbar. We are most grateful for the generosity of Lafarge cement for their continued sponsorship; again they allowed us access to all of the out buildings at the lighthouse. Sadly as well it looks like this will be the last time for how long I do not know, as the Lighthouse buildings are now being let on a very long term basis with the present occupier going to use all the outbuildings. Although they are already in residence we are most grateful to them as they allowed us to take part in the event as the dates and time had already been honoured to us by Lafarge and the letting Agency. As normal we made use of the outbuildings to set up the stations, had a kitchen, a work-shop and even a toilet this year and also somewhere to bed down. We also had access to the lighthouse itself where we strung a sloping 80M dipole and an Inverted “L” 160M aerial from. The contest runs for 48 hours but it also needs a day either side to build and dismantle the station. This year we decided once again to enter the Multi-2 section which allows two sta-tions to run calling CQ for the whole 48 hours. Running up to the contest weekend there had been numerous forum updates to find out who would be attending and for how long. This was highly beneficial as it allowed a plan to be devised for setting up and also dismantling the station. It also allowed me to put together for the first time a rough oper-ating rota together so that everyone who was attending got an equal share of operating and more important a rest. Be-lieve you me the rest times are as important as the operating time as even after a 3 hour stint it can leave you absolutely exhausted.

Work started early on the Friday morning arriving at 08:00 with a large team available consisting of Cambell MM0DXC, John MM0CCC, Gary MM0FZV, Bob GM4IKT, Geoff MM5AHO, Paul MM0VPR, Martyn MM0XXW, and Sandy MM0CJT to erect all the aerials and lastly myself GM4UYZ building the

shack. With having such a team it allowed all the equipment and aerials to be installed with no hitches at all, basically I put this down to most of the team now being quite familiar with the kit having now built and dismantled it a few times. Brian M0RNR arrived early afternoon to help the aerial team. On the Saturday, Robin MM0VTV after his work, Nick MM0NJC came along and at teatime after working all day Stevie MM0GZA for his slot on the air. Stevie was unable to stay the full weekend but did come back on The Sunday again to do an evening slot. This made up our overall team for the weekend.

Four stations were set-up which was band orientated and consisted of three FT1000MP and a FT1000 each with an Al-pha Linear so lots of consistency. Along with each station a Bandpass filter was used, Band Decoder Box (3 stations only), Voice recorders and an antenna switch (two stations only). Each radio was connected to the computer to allow rig con-trol. Antenna wise we had two stations each dedicated to their own band and fitted with a 40M YAGI and 20M YAGI respectively. The other two stations were set up with two antennas each, one station was able to operate on 80M using a Sloping Dipole from the top of the lighthouse and 15M using a 15M YAGI the other station was on 160M using an Inverted L wire antenna and 10M using a 10M YAGI. Software wise this year we used what has become our club contest software; the Windows based software WIN-TEST. The beauty about Win-test is that we can use an Ethernet network and it caters very well indeed with “loss of a station” and being able to recover it. This year our network was purely wireless all connecting via a small router. I must admit it run faultlessly. The major advantage is less cables floating around that could be affected with RF. This year on the Sunday of the contest it was Cambell MM0DXC’s birthday a couple of beers were had to wish him many happy returns...

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How were band conditions? Well it was nice to see all the bands open with 10M now being back in the fray due to where we are in the sunspot cycle. 15M & 20M were the defi-nite workhorse bands and the lower bands 160M to 40M all working about the same level. From the comments made by the team 40M was the most difficult band to work on due to the level of stations and trying to find the smallest of gap to start CQ’ing. From the tables at the end of the end of this showing how we ended and what we submitted gives you the true picture.

Regarding DXCC countries worked, well certainly we had con-tacts all round the globe from Hawaii, Australia and the Far East, from Argentina to Franz Josef Island. Below is exactly what we ended with for each of the bands and you can see it is quite impressive: 160M Aland Is, Asiatic Russia, Austria, Azores, Balearic Islands, Bela-rus, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Is, Columbia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Rep, Denmark, Eire, England, Estonia, European Russia, Finland, France, Ger-many, Greece, Hungary, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madeira, Moldo-va, Montenegro, Morocco, Northern island, Netherlands, Nor-way, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Scotland, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Gambia, Tunisia, Ukraine, USA, Wales, Western Sahara 80M Andorra, Aruba, Asiatic Russia, Austria, Balearic islands, Bela-rus, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Rep, Denmark, Eire, England, Estonia, European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madeira, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, N Ireland, Nether-lands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Turks & Caicos Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, US Virgin Is, USA, Wales

40M Aland Is, Andorra, Asiatic Russia, Austria, Azores, Balearic Is-lands, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Ca-nary Islands, Ceuta & Melilla, Columbia, Corsica, Crete, Croa-tia, Cyprus, Czech Rep, Denmark, Eire, England, Estonia, Euro-pean Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ice-land, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Lux-embourg, Madeira, Malta, Martinique, Moldova, Monaco, Montserrat, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, The Gambia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, USA 20M Aland Is, Alaska, Andorra, Argentina, Aruba, Asiatic Russia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bonaire, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Is, Chile, China, Corsica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Rep, Denmark, Eire, England, Estonia, European Russia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hawaii, Hun-gary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordon, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madeira, Malta, Martinique, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Neth-erlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Puer-to Rico, Qatar, Romania, Sardinia, Scotland, Serbia, Sicily, Slo-vakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Swit-zerland, The Gambia, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, USA, Wales 15M Aland Is, Alaska, Andorra, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aru-ba, Asiatic Russia, Australia, Austria, Azores, Balearic Islands, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cana-da, Canary Islands, Ceuta & Melilla, China, Columbia, Corsica, Costa Rica, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Rep, Denmark, Do-decanese Is, Dominican Republic, Eire, England, Estonia, Euro-pean Russia, Finland, France, French Guiana, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Montserrat, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zea-land, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Saba & St Eustatius, Sardinia, Saudi Arabia, Scot-land, Senegal, Serbia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, , Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, The Gam-bia, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks & Caicos Is, Ukraine, US Virgin Is, USA, Venezuela, Wales 10M Aland Island, Andorra, Argentina, Asiatic Russia, Australia, Austria, Azores, Bahrain, Balearic Islands, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Canary Islands, Chi-na, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic. Denmark, Dodecanese Islands, Dominican Republic, Eire, England, Esto-nia, European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, India, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, Jersey.

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Kazakhstan, Kyrgyxstan, Latvia. Lithuania, Macedonia, Madei-ra, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Northern Island, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Ro-mania, Sardinia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Svalbard, Sweden, Swit-zerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uru-guay, USA, Wales This year I used my work’s O2 dongle which gave us GPRS con-nectivity. From this we connected to the internet and apart from a couple of drop outs we remained connected to the DXCC cluster all weekend. Did we have any problems over the weekend? The answer is yes but glad to say but they were all minor ones and were easily resolved. No strong winds this year but Friday and Saturday it was perishing cold and even had a couple of very heavy hailstone showers. Sunday and Monday the weather improved with regard to temperature, thank goodness. Generally for the whole 48 hours considering what was erected, we had a few problems but all resolved very quickly so we mustn’t complain... The list of operators for the weekend is as follows: GM4UYZ MM0GZA MM0XXW MM0FZV M0RNR MM0CCC MM0DXC , MM0CJT GM4IKT MM0VPR MM0VTV MM5AHO MM0NJC Jamie 2M0JDV was our only visitor this year and it was great to see him. After the end of the contest we all retired after having a cou-ple of beers so to be ready for the Monday dismantle. On the Monday all the equipment was dismantled and re-turned to its rightful home ready for the next contest. Was it enjoyable? Yes it was, lots of hard work, lots of operating and most important lots of laughs what more can you ask for. The consensus of opinion is that the right section the Multi-Two section which only requires two stations is the right section for us as it is easier to man when the operating team is small plus as well it ensures people get adequate rest periods which I see as being absolutely essential. The section offers different tac-tics than running Multi-Multi which in itself makes it a more interesting section. Below shows how we ended after the contest and what was eventually submitted. There will always be differences as the log is checked for typos and any errors. Sometimes it works in our favour and other times it does not.... How we ended with QSO’s Logged: 5228 Contest : CQ World Wide DX Contest

Callsign : GM2T

Mode : PHONE

Category : Multi Operator - Two Trans-

mitter (M2)

Overlay : ---

Band(s) : All bands (AB)

Class : High Power (HP)

Zone/State/... : 14

Locator : IO85SX

Operating time : 47h57

BAND QSO CQ DXC DUP POINTS AVG

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160 541 11 60 7 598 1.11

80 646 16 64 12 842 1.30

40 606 15 65 10 836 1.38

20 1195 28 86 5 2040 1.71

15 1333 29 101 22 2266 1.70

10 907 25 84 4 2070 2.28

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TOTAL 5228 124 460 60 8652 1.65 ====================================== TOTAL SCORE : 5 052 768

What we submitted...

BAND QSO CQ DXC DUP POINTS AVG --------------------------------------

160 541 12 60 7 596 1.10

80 646 16 63 12 838 1.30

40 606 15 65 10 829 1.37

20 1194 27 86 6 2032 1.70

15 1334 29 101 21 2251 1.69

10 907 23 84 4 2064 2.28

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TOTAL 5228 122 459 60 8610 1.65

======================================

TOTAL SCORE : 5 002 410

Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations

As it turns out not many mistakes or I will rephrase it I didn’t find many so the logging by everyone was excellent. Well done to everyone who took part it is a fantastic score.... and I think Multi-2 is here to stay. Bob GM4UYZ

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VHF Field Day UBN Report

2012 RSGB VHF FIELD DAY CONTEST UBN Below is what was submitted as our entry in the contest Contest : Generic European VHF Contest Callsign : MM0CPS/P Mode : MIXED Category : Multi Operator - Multi Transmitter (MM) Overlay : --- Band(s) : All bands (AB) Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : Locator : IO84BT Operating time : 13h53

BAND QSO DUP LOC POINTS AVG PTS AVG DIS

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50 104 2 21 29564 284.3 288.7

70 80 0 19 24712 308.9 308.9

144 200 2 31 62713 313.6 315.9

432 61 1 19 17077 280.0 282.5

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TOTAL 445 5 90 134066 301.3 303.7

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TOTAL SCORE : 134 066

Dupes are not included in QSO counts nei-

ther avg calculations

UBN INFORMATION The is the first time ever that feedback has been given on where points have been lost with regard to the entry in the above contest. I think getting the UBN file’s advantage is that it can help identify problem areas with the operating, not that it is finger pointing as that is not the intention but as an aid to aim for ZERO errors. This year we lost 3.36% of our submitted score so the aim for 2012 will be 0% although in practice it will probably never be done. **************** Summary ***************

440 Claimed QSO before checking (does not include

duplicates)

417 Final QSO after checking reductions

134066 Claimed QSO points

124846 Final QSO points

134066 Claimed score

124846 Final score

-6.87% Score reduction

Areas where there were errors...

5 duplicates

6 broken calls (2-50MHZ, 1-70MHz 1-144MHz, 2-

432MHz)

2 broken locator (0-50MHZ, 1-70MHz 1-144MHz, 0-

432MHz)

12 Broken RST RX (0-50MHZ, 1-70MHz 7-144MHz, 5-

432MHz)

3 Broken Serial RX (0-50MHZ, 2-70MHz 0-144MHz,

0-432MHz)

1 Not in Log (1-50MHZ, 0-70MHz 0-144MHz, 0-

432MHz)

************* Results By Band ************

Band QSO QPts

Claimed 6M 102 29564

Final 6M 96 27236

Claimed 4M 80 24712

Final 4M 75 22691

Claimed 2M 198 62713

Final 2M 191 59962

Claimed 70cm 60 17077

Final 70cm 55 14957

Claimed All 440 134066 Score 134066

Final All 417 124846 Score 124846

The Final Score and QSO Points are the same in this contest as there are no multipliers involved. QSO Points are 1 point/kilometre on each contact made and is worked out calculating the distance between the contest stations maidenhead locator and the worked stations maidenhead locator. Hope you find the above interesting and help you understand why listening to exchanges during the contest is so important and also after the event making sure that any “typo” errors have been picked up before submission. Remember you are entering a contest to have fun and also to submit the best score that you can achieve. Happy Contesting... Bob GM4UYZ

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Date Time Call Correct Call RepTX SnTX RepRX Correct

RepRX SnRX Correct

SnRX Loc Correct

Loc Band Reason

07/07/2012 14:40 G4RQI/P G4RQI 57 21 55 9 IO93IR 50 Broken:Callsign

07/07/2012 15:41 M0OTE M0OTE/M 55 50 59 5 IO83RO 50 Broken:Callsign

07/07/2012 15:57 M0TTG/P 59 53 59 22 IO83WD 50 Not In Log

Date Time Call Correct Call RepTX SnTX RepRX Correct

RepRX SnRX Correct

SnRX Loc Correct

Loc Band Reason

08/07/2012 08:35 G3JKY/P 52 30 54 13 15 JO01HH 70 Broken:Serial RX

08/07/2012 09:07 G4RQI/P G4RQI 529 38 529 3 IO93IR 70 Broken:Callsign

08/07/2012 09:37 G3BXF/P 55 48 55 38 28 IO92JI 70 Broken:Serial RX

08/07/2012 10:29 G4ADV/P 54 62 57 54 7 IO70NK 70 Broken:RS(T) RX

08/07/2012 13:42 G4XRV 559 79 559 7 IO90QR IO91QR 70 Broken:Locator

Date Time Call Correct

Call RepTX SnTX RepR

X Correct

RepRX SnRX Correct

SnRX Loc Correct

Loc Band

Reason

07/07/2012 14:27 GM6NX/P 55 6 54 55 5 IO86QG 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

07/07/2012 15:36 G4CTU 54 39 55 57 11 IO82UJ 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

07/07/2012 15:52 G2OA/P 59 46 59 54 13 IO83MN 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

07/07/2012 18:47 GI1CET/P 59 81 59 49 34 IO74DT 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

07/07/2012 21:23 G4ADV/P 56 123 59 55 12 IO70NK 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

08/07/2012 08:13 G8TA/P 57 139 59 57 16 IO82WM 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

08/07/2012 08:53 G4HUN 55 145 59 55 33 IO92XE 144 Broken:RS(T) RX

08/07/2012 10:19 M0TXR/M M0TXR 53 164 53 1 IO83TN 144 Broken:Callsign

08/07/2012 11:45 F5MFI/P 57 177 59 19 IN88BQ IN88BK 144 Broken:Locator

UBN Information provided for each of the bands

Adjudication report for MM0CPS/P for VHF NFD Band 50 MHz 2012

Adjudication report for MM0CPS/P for VHF NFD Band 70 MHz 2012

Adjudication report for MM0CPS/P for VHF NFD Band 144 MHz 2012

Adjudication report for MM0CPS/P for VHF NFD Band 432 MHz 2012

Date Time Call Correct

Call RepTX SnTX RepRX Correct

RepRX SnRX Correct

SnRX Loc Correct

Loc Band Reason

07/07/2012 14:30 EI9E/P 55 4 57 59 16 IO62OM

432 Broken:RS(T) RX

07/07/2012 14:39 G3PIA 51 6 55 51 6 IO91IN

432 Broken:RS(T) RX

07/07/2012 15:54 G3RCV/P 54 16 54 25 29 JO01DH

432 Broken:Serial RX

07/07/2012 18:10 G8FOK G8ONK 55 24 57 6 IO83MR

432 Broken:Callsign

07/07/2012 19:39 M0BTZ 59 33 59 55 14 IO90GX

432 Broken:RS(T) RX

08/07/2012 13:28 G0SPS M0SPS 559 62 559 5 IO92KI

432 Broken:Callsign

07/07/2012 14:30 EI9E/P 55 4 57 59 16 IO62OM

432 Broken:RS(T) RX

Operation Umbrella

“Hello, all Lothian 4x4 Responders on Exercise Umbrella. This is MM0YMG, L4x4R Control. Return immediately, I say again im-mediately, to the RVP in the car park by International Rescue Corps. The shoreline observation points are no longer deemed safe. Acknowledge. Over”

One of the more interesting messages that arose from the recent “Exercise Umbrella” run by Falkirk Council and the Scottish Government.

The exercise was to test responses following a major oil crisis in the Forth and the scenario was based upon a major pipeline over the River Carron being smashed by an HGV with resulting carnage to include massive oil pollution and fires all over the Forth as the tides washed the oil this way, then that. The whole area was covered with a massive plume which rendered aerial observation impossible – so Lothian 4x4 Response were called out as part of the Central Scotland Strategic Coordi-nating Group (Voluntary Sector) to provide support to the User Services already involved.

Two of Lothian 4x4 Response ( L4x4R) Management Com-mittee were given a confidential outline briefing so that we could understand what would be required but then it was largely up to us. We would need to set up eight shore line ob-servation points using 4x4 vehicles to get to key designated locations and be in continual communications with a central control in Grangemouth, which would in turn be guided from the main Incident Management Suite for the whole exercise. The Responders would be responsible for providing timely scripted updates to be relayed to Incident Management. It would test their navigation skills, driving skills and their ability to communicate clearly and effectively using their radio.

We set up our control in the kindly offered offices of Interna-tional Rescue Corps in the middle of Grangemouth.

Control was to be run by MM0YMG as Duty Controller along with 2M0OSC. We used Amateur Radio (Simplex 2m) for most of our communications out to the 4x4 vehicles (two were with PMR since they do not yet hold licenses but will, hopefully, very shortly do so). We also had an Airwave communications channel between the Incident Management Team at Falkirk HQ) and MM0HSA in the field (odd structure but Hugh is Air-wave licenced).

MM6HCH (about to become 2M0xxx ) was also acting as an Observer at the main Incident Management Suite for L4x4R.

There were four vehicles between Grangemouth and Kincar-dine Bridge (GM4GVJ/GM1FAF, MM0DEC, MM6NLP and MM6MSA) and four others between Grangemouth and Bo’ness (MM0JKO, MM0ASB and the two using PMR, Stewart Mackenzie and Stewart & Lorna Nicoll).

After the initial tasking the function of Control moved to veri-fying by radio that the Responders were all safely in their al-lotted positions, were all safe, and to record when they had passed back their scripted responses into the Pollution Man-agement Control by mobile phone.

We also needed to manage the unknown “wobbles” that an exercise should always contain. In our case the “wobble” was that there were concerns over the toxicity of the plume from all the fires that was spreading across the Forth, hence the message at the top of the article. It became even more surreal when five minutes after receiving the instruction, and before anyone had got back to Grangemouth, we were given a new instruction that six of the eight vehicles were now to return to their observation points but two specific points were not safe so those Responders had to return to the car park and stay there. This led to possibly the strangest message I have ever had to communicate – bearing in mind that an Amateur Radio transmission might be heard by almost anyone and I did not want to be responsible for mass panic. I ended up with some-thing along the lines:

“This is MM0YMG, L4x4R Control for Exercise Umbrella. MM0ASB and Stewart/Lorna are to continue to return to the RVP. All other L4x4R Responders are to turn around and return to their original observation points. We have been advised that the virtual plume in no longer considered hazardous except at points 11 and 12. If you believe that your observation point has become hazardous you must retreat from the shore line and then advise Control.”

Interestingly the PMR failed miserably, largely due to the com-bination of 5W limitation and a phenomenal amount of metal and RF noise that is called the Grangemouth Refinery between their locations and control. As a result we had to resort to us-ing cell phones to contact these two vehicles from Control.

All in all our part of the exercise was deemed a success, possi-

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MM0HSA’s vehicle with 2M0OSC inside

at the IRC office in Grangemouth.

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bly even a rather unexpected success. We achieved everything asked of us and managed the “wobble” without any difficulty. I think everyone enjoyed themselves – it was a lovely sunny day, the Responders were having fun off road driving and play-ing with radio. At Control it was a tad less restful for Jenny and I but we managed.

All told we deployed 14 volunteers in 12 vehicles; we also “donated” around 700 miles and about 125 volunteer hours. More importantly we let the major participants in the exercise realise that we may well have been volunteers but we could handle our taskings with a high level of professionalism and had a communication and control capability that significantly exceeded their expectations.

Lothian 4x4 Response is a charity registered in Scotland and aims to provide emergency logistics and transport in times of need using the driving skills and vehicle capability of its mem-bers 4x4 vehicles. In the past we have assisted with trans-porting doctors, district nurses, social workers and carers so that they can do their necessary work when the roads are im-possible for normal vehicles. We have also transported pa-tients discharged from hospitals where the normal transport was ineffective due to heavy snow; assisted with Meals on Wheels in outlying areas and transported essential supplies to patients from the NHS.

Just a month ago we were called out to assist with an emer-gency evacuation of a passenger train that was stuck near Bridge of Allan, following heavy flooding and land slips. The only access was along flooded farm tracks and fields so 4x4 capabilities, and driver skills, were essential. We had seven vehicles en route for Bridge of Allan within 20 minutes of the call, before being stood down as the emergency services and ScotRail managed to negotiate a path through the landslip and get the train safely into a nearby station.

Amateur radio plays a very important part in our organisation since it allows us, as a group, to communicate such things as tasking, welfare checks, road conditions and general safety cover. This gives several huge gains over using mobile phones: first it works when the cell network is down; it allows effective broadcast of information across the group rather than 1:1 mo-bile calls; and more importantly it means drivers can listen into the net whilst they are driving. We do strongly recommend that they park safely before transmitting.

We have built our own radio assisted mobile control setup so that we can cover deployment. Importantly not all our mem-bers are 4x4 drivers since they have recognised that there is a huge need for us to have well organised and capable control functionality. Thus most of the control team are not 4x4 driv-ers but are licenced amateurs who are willing to assist with managing any deployment that Lothian 4x4 Response is asked to make.

We also work closely with Lothians RAYNET. Our general ap-proach would be that in the event of a major deployment, like

Winter 2010, we would ask RAYNET to cover our radio control leaving our own controllers to organise and manage the de-ployment, without the need to micromanage the radio com-munications – we would, of course still be listening so would be very quickly appraised of any developing issues.

In most cases our Responders are licensed amateurs with their own mobile equipment installed in their vehicles. We are shortly investing in a number of kits we can loan out to li-censed Responders who do not have a mobile installation. We also have a number of licenced PMR sets that can supplement any deployment.

We take our training seriously and our next event is an off road driving day where we are going to concentrate on en-hancing our skills and techniques in difficult conditions – the way the weather is looking we should not be disappointed! We actively encourage our responders to complete their ama-teur licence and to date we have about 25 responders who are licensed, many of whom have Bob, Campbell, Gary and CPSARC to thank for guiding them through the various licenc-es. Six more are soon to undertake the next foundation exam.

If you think you would be interested in finding out more, whether as a 4x4 driver or as a potential support team mem-ber please do get in touch with me (contact@l4x4r.org.uk). You can find more information on www.lothian4x4response.org

As a Charity we rely on donations and fund raising to support running and training the team, if you would like to make a donation to support the team or have any surplus amateur radio equipment that could be useful to the team – we would be delighted to hear from you

www.lothian4x4response.org

Charity Registered in Scotland – SC041830

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Winter Construction Nights

A few months ago Bob asked for suggestions activities for the club to run for members over the Winter. As a well known mad inventor and experimenter and I came up with the idea of getting a group of people to build a Ham related electronics kit. I know soldering isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but we all use electronics and it does help to know how it’s all put together.

Much of the most modern stuff of course uses “surface mount” technology where components are generally tiny and are soldered directly to the printed surface of a circuit board. The older technology is still around in some kits though and it has the components mounted in the traditional way on one side of the board with the leads being pushed through holes. The conducting copper strips of the printed circuit are on the opposite side from the components. My eyes are not up to the job of working with surface mount I’m afraid. So with this in mind I decided to see what suitable kits were available which might be of interest to hams.

A lot of the more complex kits I looked at were completely surface mount. Some were a mixture of surface mount and “through hole” but most of those were pretty expensive and some required fairly complex alignment procedures after com-pletion. If it goes well and there is an appetite for more ad-vanced work then we can look at more intricate kits in the future - but for this time I wanted to keep the cost and com-plexity down whilst at the same time give people the oppor-tunity to build something that was genuinely interesting and hopefully useful. After a bit of research I came up with two candidate kits and sent off for them.

They were;

The Acorn software defined receiver (SDR) from Kanga kits at £23.95 delivered

And A digital SWR/RF- Power meter from Radio-Kits.co.uk at £38 delivered.

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These pictures are of the kits I actually built so should give you a good idea of what is involved but further pictures and details are on the appropriate websites.

http://www.radio-kits.co.uk/

http://www.kanga-products.co.uk/

Neither of them is difficult to build or set up. The digital SWR/Watt meter requires a pretty steady hand with the soldering iron so would probably not be a beginner’s kit. Most interest from those who have signed up so far is in building the SDR Receiver and that should be easily manageable over two eve-nings. The SWR/Power Meter is still an option for those who feel they are reasonably competent with a soldering iron though.

You will probably want to put your masterpiece in a case of some sort but we don’t envisage doing that during the eve-nings as you will need drills and files which the club doesn’t have. The supplier of the Digital SWR/Wattmeter suggest a case which can be ordered with the kit and it comes with a drilling template (as it has a fairly critical cut-outs for the buttons and the display) but the SDR can be fitted in any old case that you can mount a few sockets and switches in.

Bob has agreed that the club’s equipment and tools can be used so you won’t need anything except a small amount of cash and a big helping of enthusiasm. We could save a few quid on the postage if we order the kits all at once so I’ll be chasing people up for the cash up-front sometime in January.

We have already booked two nights at the community centre;

If you are interested there is already a thread on forum on the club’s website. Just leave your name there and you’ll be add-ed to the list but don’t hang about too long there are already a few signed up and space is limited.

Cephas

MM0INS

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Friday 15th February 2013 18:30 – 21:30

Friday 22nd February 2013 18:30 – 21:30

Contacts

General correspondence,

training and contest

entries

Bob Glasgow

7 Castle Terrace

Port Seton

East Lothian

EH32 0EE

Phone: 01875 811723

E-mail:

gm4uyz@cpsarc.com

HF Contests

Cambell Stevenson

mm0dxc@aol.com

VHF Contests

John MacLean

mm0ccc@cpsarc.com

Club Tables

Bob Purves

gm4ikt@cpsarc.com

Contest Reports

Robin Farrer

mm0vtv@cpsarc.com

Newsletter, website,

event calendar

John Innes

newsletter@cpsarc.com

7 December 2012 Club Night

8 December 2012 Christmas Night Out—Dragon Way, Port Seton

5 January 2013 Newsletter deadline

11 January 2013 Club Night

19 January 2013 Advanced Course begins

1 February 2013 Club Night

1 March 2013 Club Night

5 April 2013 Club Night

3 May 2013 Club Night

Events Column Answers from November 2012 newsletter “Test Your Knowledge”.

1B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5D, 6A, 7D, 8D, 9B, 10A

Clublog DXCC Table

As we’re approaching the end of the year,

you’ve just got time to submit your logs to

Clublog to see if you can get your name in

lights.

It will be interesting to see how many coun-

tries GM2T adds during CQWW!

Duncan MM0GZZ and Jim MM0DXH have put

on a late spurt adding 7 countries this month

and moves in to third place behind Bob

GM4IKT.

Even if you’ve only worked a few countries,

submit your log and help support Clublog.

Rank Callsign 160 80 60 40 30 20 17 15 12 10 6 4 2 70 DXCCs ▼ Slots Range

1 GM4IKT 0 0 0 0 0 96 16 94 0 58 0 0 0 0 163 264 8 yrs

2 GM2T 58 72 0 75 0 99 0 118 0 84 26 0 0 0 138 532 13 yrs

3 MM0DXH 0 41 0 68 0 74 0 49 4 72 0 0 0 0 125 308 9 yrs

4 MM0GZZ 0 3 0 41 32 97 0 30 6 39 0 0 0 0 114 248 4 yrs

5 MM0XXW 0 9 0 38 25 47 21 63 12 6 7 0 0 0 89 228 6 yrs

6 GM2Y 0 38 0 55 0 44 0 34 0 47 0 0 0 0 87 218 2 yrs

7 M0RNR 0 0 0 41 0 54 2 38 0 0 3 0 0 0 80 138 13 yrs

8 GB2MOF 0 0 0 19 0 54 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 56 77 11 yrs

9 GM4UYZ 0 4 0 4 0 45 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 60 32 yrs

10 MQ0XXW 0 0 0 7 0 17 2 29 2 1 0 0 0 0 40 58 0 yrs

11 MM0CPS 0 0 0 5 0 25 0 7 0 0 6 7 9 5 35 64 14 yrs

12 MM5AHO 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 14 0 3 0 0 1 0 21 24 17 yrs

13 MM0WZB 0 0 0 6 0 15 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 23 2 yrs

14 MO0XXW 0 0 0 3 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0 yrs

15 MM0KTC 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 9 4 yrs